An "alive" Pecha Kucha

We spoke all throughout the year about the ‘Pecha Kucha’ presentations (how to pronounce it? HERE) and we had the chance of trying them in front of the Practical Issues audience.

We all know now that a Pecha Kucha presentation has its particular way of presenting a topic: you have to do it while showing 20 slides and each of the slides has to be on display just for 20 seconds. That gives you a total presentation time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds.

Marilí (http://marilimaldonado.blogspot.com.ar), our Phonetics teacher, gave us the opportunity to present a Pecha Kucha there, in Centro de Idiomas, for Practical Issues. Many of us couldn’t do it live because there wasn’t enough time to prepare it. Luckily, I was part of the group who could do it.

My classmates Fernanda (http://icttherewego.blogspot.com/) and Aldana (http://aldanamviano.blogspot.com/) - and I - worked on one of the possible topics that Marilí provided us: “How to make sounds memorable”.  We had to propose a set of guidelines that could be useful for teachers when they have to show their students how to produce certain sounds. Moreover, we tried to give tips on how to make students remember the way these sounds are produced. 

The experience was great. Apart from the feeling that we were contributing to English teaching, we also felt, in a way, loved. We received displays of affection from everybody there. People we didn’t know were encouraging us and saying very nice things to us, as if our work was good! We knew it was a 'special edition' of the Practical Issues because there was going to be a tribute to Daniel Fernández and María Isabel Recamán. In addition, our teacher, Marilí, is about to retire so we tried our best to make her proud of her students. And she said she was!

 

We ended up really tired (I got ill!) but, in all, it was a wonderful Saturday. Plus, we enjoyed our teachers’ presentations, which were excellent! They gave us lots of ideas as regards technology in the classroom and they even showed some of our blogs and the work we are doing in ECO2.

Now we ‘are supposed to’ design another Pecha Kucha presentation for ECO2. I hope that previous experience helps us to do it a little bit faster than before!

Anyway, if there is someone out there that would be interested in presenting the topic “How to make sounds memorable”, he/she can download the presentation –in Power Point – and the script. Just click HERE and good luck!